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Abstract
Visualizing Soviet internationalism as a student dormitory, this essay identifies a new transnational subgenre, the Soviet dormitory novel, and analyzes four examples: Nazim Hikmet’s Life’s Good, Brother (Turkish, 1964); Ismail Kadare’s Twilight of the Eastern Gods (Albanian, 1978); Sonallah Ibrahim’s Ice (Arabic, 2011); and Yurii Andrukhovych’s Moscoviad (Ukrainian, 2000). These works each depict a different decade and come from different locations on the concentric map of Soviet influence: the Afro-Asian world, Eastern Europe, and the non-Russian USSR. Together, they reveal some shared formal features of the dormitory novel and some unintended consequences of Soviet internationalism, including the various racisms it rejected but helped perpetuate.
本文将苏联的国际主义形象化为学生宿舍,确定了一种新的跨国亚类型——苏联宿舍小说,并分析了四个例子:纳齐姆·希克梅特的《生活的美好,兄弟》(土耳其,1964年);伊斯梅尔·卡达雷的《东方诸神的黄昏》(阿尔巴尼亚语,1978年);Sonallah Ibrahim 's Ice(阿拉伯语,2011);尤里·安德鲁科维奇的《莫斯科》(乌克兰,2000年)。这些作品分别描绘了不同的十年,来自苏联影响的同心地图上的不同地点:亚非世界、东欧和非俄罗斯的苏联。总之,它们揭示了宿舍小说的一些共同的形式特征,以及苏联国际主义的一些意想不到的后果,包括它拒绝但又帮助延续的各种种族主义。
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The oldest journal in its field in the United States, Comparative Literature explores issues in literary history and theory. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and critical approaches, the journal represents a wide-ranging look at the intersections of national literatures, global literary trends, and theoretical discourse. Continually evolving since its inception in 1949, the journal remains a source for cutting-edge scholarship and prides itself on presenting the work of talented young scholars breaking new ground in the field.